XI Armeekorps

The XI Armeekorps was a corps of the German Heer that existed from October 1936 to May 1945. The corps took part in the invasion of Poland and the battle of France in 1939-1940, but it would be transferred to the east to fight the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945. The corps took part in Operation Barbarossa and Case Blue in 1941 and 1942, but the corps was forced back in the destructive Soviet counterattacks of 1943 and 1944. The army was pushed back through Poland and into Silesia in 1945, and it ended the war in Prague, Czechoslovakia in May 1945.